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In need of a h♉it and some restored lustre, Will Smith here doubles down with the kind of old-school-vibe con movie that lives o𒅌r dies on its star's charisma. Only he's not the star that saves it...

Smith plays Nicky, a veteran con artist who takes upstart Jess (Margot Robbie) under his wing, only for things to g🦋et... complicated. Years pass, the plot belatedly kickin🗹g in when Nicky works a scam in the F1 world – a world in which Jess is also entangled.

What initially intrigues about Focus is that it seems a mite grubbier than con flicks of yore, from The Sting to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Catch Me If You Can. The first half sees Nicky introduce Jess to the glamorous gentleman thief practice of… pickpocketing drunk tourists in New Orleans. We could have had a tougher film where these antics are interrogated – the writing/directing team wrote 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bad Santa &ndaꦰsh; but it feels having a megas💝tar on board shaved these edges off.

So how does Smith do? Mixed fortunes: he regularly breaks out the charm that made him one of the '90s/'00s biggest box-office draws – but he also reverts to the tetchy persona we saw much too much of in the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:After Earth; a bit of a problem when you n☂eed your hero to be likeable enough to excuse his crimes and𓃲 misdemeanours.